Timelines
Rubeus Hagrid

BK

YEAR

EVENTS

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1928

6 December: Born to giant mother, Fridwulfa,
and a human father. Note: When it was revealed 6 Dec. 2004
on Jo's website that Hagrid's birthday was in December, this forced a
revision of the year of his birth, as well as a recalculation of the
year he entered Hogwarts.

c.1932

Fridwulfa abandons her family when Hagrid was "abou'
three."

1940

September: First year at Hogwarts;
he is sorted into Gryffindor. Albus Dumbledore is the Head of Gryffindor
and the Transfiguration professor.

1940
or 1941

Hagrid acquires an Acromantula egg and hatches
it in a cupboard in the castle.

"I was not born in the castle. I come from a distant land. A traveler
gave me to Hagrid when I was an egg. Hagrid was only a boy, but he cared
for me, hidden in a cupboard in the castle, feeding me on scraps from
the table." (CS17)

1941
or 1942

Father dies during Hagrid's second year at Hogwarts.

1943

Shortly after 13 June: Falsely
accused of opening the Chamber of Secrets, expelled and given gamekeeper
position. Aragog the Acromantula is released into the Forbidden Forest.

31 July: Barges into the Dursley's
rented hut and tells Harry he's a wizard. He also brings him a birthday
cake.

Hagrid takes Harry to the Leaky Cauldron and Diagon Alley. While there,
Hagrid retrieves the Philosopher's Stone from the Gringotts' high security
vaults and buys Hedwig as a birthday present for Harry.

late April : Hatches a baby Norwegian Ridgeback dragon
and names him Norbert; the egg was obtained in a card game where
Hagrid inadvertently tells the stranger how to make Fluffy go to sleep.

early May: Norbert is delivered to Charlie's friends
when he gets to be too much to handle.

early June: Hagrid tells Harry the secret to pacifying
Fluffy and Harry realizes that the stranger who gave Hagrid the egg
knows it too. Harry, Hermione and Ron get to Fluffy's room and find
the dog fast asleep. Together they overcome the Philosopher's Stone's
various protections, and defeat Quirrell/Voldemort's attempt to steal
it.

"This is very easy," Malfoy drawled, loud enough for Harry
to, hear him. "I knew it must have been, if Potter could do it....
I bet you're not dangerous at all, are you?" he said to the hippogriff. "Are
you, you great ugly brute?"

It happened in a flash of steely talons; Malfoy let out a highpitched
scream and next moment, Hagrid was wrestling Buckbeak back into his
collar as he strained to get at Malfoy, who lay curled in the grass,
blood blossoming over his robes.

Afterwards, Lucius Malfoy makes an official complaint about Buckbeak's
ferociousness to the Ministry.

19 December: Hagrid receives a letter informing him
about Buckbeak's hearing. Hermione promises
to help research how Hagrid can defend the Hippogriff. Note: the letter gives the hearing date
as April 20th, but it acutally occurred on February 11th.

Dear Mr. Hagrid,

Further to our inquiry into the attack by a hippogriff on a student
in your class, we have accepted the assurances of Professor Dumbledore
that you bear no responsibility for the regrettable incident.

However, we must register our concern about the
hippogriff in question. We have decided to uphold the official complaint
of Mr. Lucius Malfoy, and this matter will therefore be taken to
the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures. The hearing
will take place on April 20th, and we ask you to present yourself
and your hippogriff at the Committee's offices in London on that
date. In the meantime, the hippogriff should be kept tethered and
isolated. Yours in fellowship...

11 February: Buckbeak's hearing before the Committee
for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures. Lucius Malfoy argues persuasively
that Buckbeak is too dangerous to be allowed to live.

"S'all my fault. Got all tongue-tied. They was all sittin'
there in black robes an' I kep' droppin' me notes and forgettin'
all them dates yeh looked up fer me, Hermione. An' then Lucius Malfoy
stood up an' said his bit, and the Committee jus' did exac'ly what
he told 'em...."

12 February: Hermione learns from Hagrid that Buckbeak is to be executed.

6 June: Buckbeak is scheduled to be executed but
is rescued by Harry and Hermione. Buckbeak then in turn helps Harry
and Hermione rescue Sirius from his tower cell before the dementors
can deliver the "kiss."